Run: Book One: List 1

by John Lewis
In this follow-up to the March trilogy, John Lewis recounts the efforts of civil rights activists to safeguard Black suffrage and support Black candidates for political office.
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  1. integrated
    designated as available to all races or groups
    This is not an integrated church.
  2. catcall
    utter disapproving cries at
    There'll be no catcalling, no responding if anyone hollers at you.
  3. uprising
    organized opposition to authority
    Some folks called it an "uprising."
  4. oppress
    come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
    In Los Angeles and Chicago, black people are protesting against police brutality, economic and social discrimination, and the failure and refusal of men with power to meet the needs of an oppressed people.
  5. discipline
    a system of rules of conduct or method of practice
    He trained many of us in the philosophy and discipline of nonviolence.
  6. nonviolence
    peaceful resistance to a government
    He trained many of us in the philosophy and discipline of nonviolence.
  7. permeate
    spread or diffuse through
    Nonviolence, as it grows from the Judeo-Christian tradition, seeks a social order of justice permeated by love.
  8. transcend
    be superior or better than some standard
    Love transcends hate.
  9. dissipate
    cause to separate and go in different directions
    Acceptance dissipates prejudice; hope ends despair.
  10. reconcile
    bring into consonance or accord
    Faith reconciles doubt.
  11. redemptive
    bringing about salvation from sin
    The redemptive community supersedes immoral social systems.
  12. supersede
    take the place or move into the position of
    The redemptive community supersedes immoral social systems.
  13. ideological
    relating to the characteristic thinking of a group
    But I did anyway, and the distance between us — personally and ideologically — just kept growing.
  14. jeopardize
    pose a threat to; present a danger to
    But the SNCC staffers also knew that the students would likely be arrested or beaten, and that could jeopardize voter registration efforts.
  15. picket
    take part in a strike or protest
    For resisting arrest...and picketing to cause blood!
  16. mobilize
    make ready for action or use
    More than sixteen thousand law enforcement personnel were mobilized.
  17. disperse
    move away from each other
    I'm ordering y'all to disperse.
  18. segregationist
    someone who believes the races should be kept apart
    Despite adding thousands of new black voters to the rolls, the only choices on the ballots were often segregationists.
  19. feisty
    showing spirit and courage
    He was polished, graceful, a feisty debater, and he knew how to work with the press.
  20. faction
    a clique that seeks power usually through intrigue
    American involvement in the conflict between northern and southern factions in the Southeast Asian nation of Vietnam had been going on for several years.
  21. retaliate
    make a counterattack and return like for like
    But it became a war on August 4, 1964, when alleged attack on American warships in the Gulf of Tonkin prompted American bombers to retaliate against North Vietnamese villages.
  22. draft
    engage somebody to enter the army
    By the fall of 1965, the Vietnam War involved hundreds of thousands of American troops, drafted into the army with little recourse, all too poor to afford college and receive a student deferment...
  23. recourse
    something or someone turned to for assistance or security
    By the fall of 1965, the Vietnam War involved hundreds of thousands of American troops, drafted into the army with little recourse, all too poor to afford college and receive a student deferment...
  24. deferment
    act of putting off to a future time
    By the fall of 1965, the Vietnam War involved hundreds of thousands of American troops, drafted into the army with little recourse, all too poor to afford college and receive a student deferment...
  25. conscientious
    guided by or in accordance with a sense of right and wrong
    I believed so strongly that I registered with my local draft board as a conscientious objector.
  26. depletion
    the act of decreasing something markedly
    And it would not stop the slow depletion of our SNCC staff as, one by one, young men were drafted to serve in the military and cross the Pacific Ocean to fight the North Vietnamese.
  27. erode
    become ground down or deteriorate
    Within SNCC, the war eroded much of our remaining trust in the Johnson administration.
  28. implementation
    the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order
    But President Johnson moved forward with plans to hold a White House conference to build on the civil rights legislation and to shore up its implementation...
  29. entrench
    fix firmly or securely
    Marion was becoming more and more influential and entrenched in the politics of Washington.
  30. acquit
    pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
    Marvin Segrest was acquitted of the second-degree murder of Samuel Younge by an all-white jury.
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Created on Thu Nov 18 14:07:48 EST 2021 (updated Fri Nov 19 08:17:04 EST 2021)

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